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Asci linear ; sporidia uniseriate ; sporiclia oblong, -0002 long. 

 The original specimens from Schweinitz and Fries are stylosporous. 



944. Sphaeriastictoides. B. Sc C. — Peritlieciis applanatis depressis 

 epidermide cinctis ; sporidiis S-septatis; apud medium septum con- 

 strictis subbiconicis. 



On Liriodendron. Car. Sup. No. 72. 



Forming little irregular depressed spicules surrounded by the 

 cuticle ; sporidia nearly biconical, one division larger than the other, 

 5-septate, constricted at the middle septum. 



* Sphaexia subsimplex. Schwein. — On Rhus glabra. Mountains 

 of New York. No. 4425. 



Sporidia elliptic, hyaline, "00057 long. 



945. Sphaezia polysticta. B. cL- C. — Ostiolo excepto cuticula 

 tecta ; ascis linearibus ; sporidiis oblo^gis uniseptatis fuscis. 



On Smilax. Beaumont. No. 4874- 



Ferithecia scarcely raising the cuticle, visible chiefly from the 

 black_ dotlike ostiola ; asci linear ; sporidia oblong, uniseptate, 

 •0003 long, rather more than twice as long as broad. 



946. Sphaeria disrupta. B. tj- C. — Peritheciis cuticula tectis tu- 

 mentibus, ostiolo punctiformi ; ascis obovatis ; sporidiis biseriatis 

 ellipticis hyalinis. 



On Smilax. Car. Inf. No. 2141. 



Ferithecia causing little swellings in the unaltered cuticle, which 

 are pierced in the centre by the ostiola ; asci broad, obovate, with 

 two rows of hyaline elliptic sporidia, accompanied by brown elliptic 

 binucleate stylospores in different perithecia. 



* Sphaezia cucuzbitaceaxum. Schnein. — On gourds. Car. Sup. 

 No. 276. Car. Inf. No. 1731, 1733. 



Sporidia oblong, -0003 long. I have not, however, seen asci. 



* Sphaezia Xlicis. ScMeich.— Ow leaves of Ilex opaca. Car. Inf. 

 No. 1084. 



Sporidia biseriate, swollen on either side like the frustules of 

 Eunotia. 



947. Sphaezia hypezcina. B. 4- C. — Stictoidea epidermide cincta ; 

 ascis clavatis ; sporidiis cymbaiformibus hyalinis. 



On Hi/perica. Car. Inf. No. 3701. 



Ferithecia depressed, surrounded by the cuticle ; asci clavate ; 

 sporidia cymbceform, hyaline, '001 long. Looking somewhat like >S'. 

 stictoides, but with very different fruit. 



* Sphaezia Kalmiazum. Schivein. — On Rhododendron arhoreum 

 and Kalmia latifolia. Car. Sup. No. 420, 421. 



* Sphaezia epidezmidis. Fr. — On Sambucus. Car. Sup. No. 

 923. 



* Sphaezia acuta. jVo?/^.— Car. Sup, No. 17, 331, 356. Car. 

 Inf. No. 6046. Virginian Mountams. No. 3315. 



